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WFP says it will end monthly aid to 500,000 Gazans due to lack of funding
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The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) provides food parcels to displaced people in Gaza City, October 23, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)
The UN’s World Food Programme says it would end monthly assistance to 500,000 people in Gaza due to a funding shortfall, while warning that needs remain acute.
“As of this month, we’re now cutting half a million people from the number of people that we’re assisting,” Shaun Hughes, the WFP country director, tells AFP.
The reductions bring down to 1.1 million — still roughly half of war-battered Gaza’s population — the number of Palestinians receiving WFP aid either in food or cash assistance.
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